NORTH MANATEE — A 42-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after witnesses said he tried cutting a pair of shorts off another man.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, James Williams Jr., who lives in the 2200 block of Third Avenue East, north of Palmetto, arrived home at about 7 p.m. Tuesday to find his brother and a friend sitting in the front yard drinking.
Williams confronted the friend, saying the red and white football shorts he was wearing had great sentimental value and told him to take them off.
The man said the shorts were not Williams’ and that if he wanted them to take them from him. Williams pushed the man to the ground and started cutting the shorts off the victim with a small razor blade or small pocket knife, witnesses said.
The friend had cuts on his stomach, but Williams told deputies he did not use a razor blade or knife, but that the cuts could have been caused by his fingernails.
Williams was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapons and was being held in the Manatee County jail on a $1,000 bond.
Argument ends in the arrest of three men
BRADENTON — A neighborhood argument and theft of four bicycles led to the arrest of three men Tuesday on robbery charges.
According to Bradenton Police Department reports, Jeremy Sneperger, 24, and Juan Leyva, 32, who live in the 2000 block of 10th Street West, argued with two other men on bicycles several streets from where they live earlier Tuesday.
At about 11:40 p.m., Sneperger and Leyva, along with Samuel Sneperger, 25, drove to the home of the two other men in the 2000 block of 12th Street West to confront them, reportedly with a handgun and a spray can of mace.
The victims ran into the home, and the three suspects took four bicycles from the yard, put them into the back of their pickup and left, the report alleged.
All three men were arrested and charged with robbery with a deadly weapon and other offenses, although a handgun was not recovered.
Leyva was being held in the Manatee County jail on a $50,750 bond, Jeremy Sneperger on a $197,500 bond, and Samuel Sneperger on $51,000 bond.
— Carl Mario Nudi
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